Huawei Mate 30: the installation of the Google Play Store is now impossible


Huawei Mate 30

Huawei was unable to obtain an Android license for its Mate 30 smartphones due to its exclusion from the US market. The smartphones in the series have therefore turned to AOSP, an open-source version of Android stripped of Google services and applications. Unsurprisingly, early Huawei Mate 30 testers sought solutions to manually install Google services, including the valuable Play Store. Many users finally managed to install the Play Store on the Mate 30 in less than 10 minutes by retrieving the APK files needed to install the Google Services Framework on the Chinese site lzplay.net. The site allowed users to add Google Mobile Services without having to unblock the bootloader.

According to John Wu, the developer behind Magisk, a tool for rooting Android smartphones, lzplay.net relies on a backdoor present only on Huawei devices. This breach allows the APK proposed by the site to install other applications as “system” applications and to alter the firmware of the Mate 30.

Huawei Mate 30 Pro

Obviously, the operation of this method raises many concerns for the safety of smartphones. “It’s obvious that Huawei is aware of this lzplay application and explicitly authorizes its existence,” Wu accuses. According to him, the Chinese group allowed lzplay to exist. So that Google services could be accessed in one way or another on the Mate 30.

Shortly after the declaration of John Wu, the site lzplay.net has been removed. For the moment, it is unclear whether the site was closed by QiHoo Jiagu. Which is the developer of the workaround, or if Huawei worried about its image and the safety of its users. In light of the latest developments in the case. Google reportedly decided to block the installation of the Play Store through the site lzplay.net.

Google blocks the installation of its applications on the Mate 30

As reported 9to5Google, Mate 30 who have installed the Play Store are no longer considered safe by SafetyNet, the server-side security mechanism implemented by Google to identify rooted or modified Android smartphones.

Since SafetyNet’s turnaround, Google’s services added to Huawei smartphone have begun to malfunction. Some testers note, for example, that Google Pay now refuses to work. A few days ago, all the services installed via lzplay.net worked perfectly. Without the agreement of SafetyNet, applications like Netflix or PokĂ©mon Go also become unusable. Is Google blocking the use of its services on Mate 30? We will tell you more as soon as possible.

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